From the way things seem given your recent posts about struggling with getting words onto the page, I would suggest doing anything that actually gets you moving in that direction. If you are stuck on one particular bit, by all means skip it for now. Whether that means incorporating this into the narrative, or coming back later for clean-up, depends on the product itself (I haven’t read the work you are talking about).
A more general aside: I’ve found myself in a very similar position, finding it incredibly hard to put words on the page yet needing to do so more and more urgently. I’ve seen a few comments you made before about preparing optimal writing situations and planning for them—I did exactly the same and in retrospect it seems this was a bad strategy for me. Mainly because such preparations got me thinking more and more about providing an optimal situation for written productivity: in essence setting up small “writing retreats” now and again. This became a self-perpetuating loop of non-writing, because doing so provided perfect excuses for NOT writing at any other time.
A friend who is a (now retired) writer suggested that instead, I work on writing despite distractions, rather than constraining my writing effort to those situations where all distractions are minimised. In alternating weeks I tried the different techniques (A,B,B,A, where A=my old approach of writing in optimal situations and B=explicit attempt to write in distracting environments I wouldn’t consider suitable for “A”). It turned out that B>A both in minutes spent writing (+125%) and in wordcount (+160%). Quality of work under “B” might have been lower but I don’t seem to have a block in editing and revising, only in first drafting.
From the way things seem given your recent posts about struggling with getting words onto the page, I would suggest doing anything that actually gets you moving in that direction. If you are stuck on one particular bit, by all means skip it for now. Whether that means incorporating this into the narrative, or coming back later for clean-up, depends on the product itself (I haven’t read the work you are talking about).
A more general aside: I’ve found myself in a very similar position, finding it incredibly hard to put words on the page yet needing to do so more and more urgently. I’ve seen a few comments you made before about preparing optimal writing situations and planning for them—I did exactly the same and in retrospect it seems this was a bad strategy for me. Mainly because such preparations got me thinking more and more about providing an optimal situation for written productivity: in essence setting up small “writing retreats” now and again. This became a self-perpetuating loop of non-writing, because doing so provided perfect excuses for NOT writing at any other time.
A friend who is a (now retired) writer suggested that instead, I work on writing despite distractions, rather than constraining my writing effort to those situations where all distractions are minimised. In alternating weeks I tried the different techniques (A,B,B,A, where A=my old approach of writing in optimal situations and B=explicit attempt to write in distracting environments I wouldn’t consider suitable for “A”). It turned out that B>A both in minutes spent writing (+125%) and in wordcount (+160%). Quality of work under “B” might have been lower but I don’t seem to have a block in editing and revising, only in first drafting.